{"id":185,"date":"2017-05-07T22:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/?p=185"},"modified":"2017-05-07T22:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:34:36","slug":"desk-lamp-is-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/desk-lamp-is-unstable\/","title":{"rendered":"Desk Lamp is Unstable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With advances in LED lighting, this <strong>TaoTronics<\/strong> desk lamp looked like it would fit my needs, which were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An adjustable (position &amp; intensity) light to use with my \u201cstudent\u201d microscope. The \u2018scope has a mirror for illuminating slides from below or with direct light from above.<\/li>\n<li>A light source for macro-photography and close-up work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-186\" alt=\"desk lamp tips over\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TaotronicsLamp-TipTest-crop-300x175.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TaotronicsLamp-TipTest-crop-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TaotronicsLamp-TipTest-crop.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The most common complaint in the lower rated (1-3 star) reviews on Amazon cited functional failure of the light or the touch-control panel (used to vary brightness), so when I received the lamp, the first thing I did is set it up and run it through several on-off cycles, ranging from a few minutes to 24 hour on, for about 4 days.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Quality Fail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/quality-fail\/#desklamp\" target=\"_blank\">&gt; Link to full article and video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With advances in LED lighting, this TaoTronics desk lamp looked like it would fit my needs, which were: An adjustable (position &amp; intensity) light to use with my \u201cstudent\u201d microscope. The \u2018scope has a mirror for illuminating slides from below &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/desk-lamp-is-unstable\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,17,15,16,19],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bad-design","tag-led-desk-lamp","tag-product-fail","tag-taotronics","tag-unstable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualitymgr.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}